PLDA Announces a Full Set of Solutions to Immediately Enable PCIe 4.0 Design Success

New slideware outlines methods that allows designers to optimize
and validate their applications for PCIe 4.0 before motherboards even
become available

SAN JOSE, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — September 21, 2016 —
PLDA, the industry leader in PCI Express® interface IP solutions, today
announced a full set of solutions allowing designers to create products
optimized for PCIe® 4.0 now. PCIe 4.0 motherboards are not expected to
be obtainable until 2017, but when they become available, the market
will expect access to applications and components that can take
advantage of PCIe 4.0’s speed and agility. By helping with project
solutions now, PLDA enables designers to take advantage of the PCIe 4.0
market with less design lag.

To support their solution set, PLDA has created a short video
presentation outlining the steps designers can take today to bring their
PCIe 4.0 products to completion. The slideware is featured on PLDA’s
website at
https://www.plda.com/accelerate-your-pcie-40-design-now
and outlines considerations required to deliver PCIe 4.0 success
including:

Ways to choose the right technical architecture and feature set for a
design

Methods to validate and test a design on hardware at PCIe 4.0 speed

Techniques to ensure a smooth integration between the PCIe PHY IP and
a PCIe controller

Approaches to create teams that are trained on all of the specific
aspects of PCIe 4.0 design

Additionally, the video presentation includes a demo, showing for the
first time a PCIe 4.0 Controller IP running at 16 GT/s on a generic PCIe
Endpoint platform.

According to Arnaud Schleich, CEO of PLDA, “PCIe 4.0 is expected to
deliver added speed and functionality that today’s market craves. By
enabling our customers to take advantage of PCIe 4.0, we are giving them
a time-to-market and cost-to-market advantage.”

About PLDAPLDA has been successfully delivering PCI and PCI
Express IP for more than 20 years. With over 6,200 licenses, PLDA has
established a vast customer base and the world’s broadest PCIe
ecosystem. PLDA has maintained its leadership over four generations of
PCI Express specifications, enabling customers to reduce risk and
accelerate time to market for their ASIC and FPGA based designs. PLDA
provides a complete PCIe solution with its IP cores, FPGA boards for
ASIC prototyping, PCIe BFM/testbench, PCIe drivers and APIs. PLDA is a
global company with offices in North America (San Jose, California) and
Europe (France, Italy, Bulgaria).

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